Did they tear the whole station down & are rebuilding it all over again?!They should get that graffiti off the wall while their at it.

Yes. Only thing left is the actual concrete structure of the original station. Will be getting a new platform, canopy and headhouse on the parking lot side. A modest headhouse will be on Newport Ave with stairs and a switchback ramp.

I don't feel like they've done anything to make laying down more difficult.

Right, the spaces on the black ledge behind the railing and between the pillars make nice little separated bunks. When the weather is bad you'll always find people sleeping in those spots. By and large, they don't disturb commuters and commuters don't disturb them.

The recently released Annual Status Report on the Green Line Extension project lists new, earlier dates for the start of GLX service: April 28, 2021 for the branch to Union Square in Somerville, and July 10, 2021 for the branch to College Avenue in Medford. Previous projections were for service to start by December 2021.

I am a space cadet and missed my stop the other day, so here are some new pictures of Wollaston heading south, and then a video heading back north:

Hopefully with City of Quincy realizing the world didn't end when the Great Mistake garage at Quincy Ctr. closed, they'll start warming up to the idea of putting Wollaston on a severe parking diet too. 550 spaces is hugely unnecessary waste of asphalt in a dense residential neighborhood lacking much in way of direct high-capacity thoroughfares to a major commuter highway. The whole southeast lot is worth 100K sq. ft. of redev space fronting the Beale/Greenwood block. Simply TOD'ing that slab still leaves 150+ spaces remaining on the more oddly-shaped and lower-value northwest lot...arguably still a bit too much capacity for a neighborhood walk-up stop but very effective nonetheless as a step-down total from ridiculous over-capacity.

With QC garage's demise, Wollaston is the new #1 most unnecessary parking glut on the rapid transit system and the proverbial "one of these is not like the others" sticking out on the list of stops bearing 450+ parking spaces.

I have update photos for a number of projects coming. I'll post them here as I upload them to Commons. All were taken between December 27 and 30, and clicking on the images will take you to the file description page with the full-size image.

First, progress on the new mini-high platforms and ramps at Mansfield. The underpass ramps are largely complete, but apparently there's a code issue so the whole project is delayed until the end of 2019. Here's the outbound ramp and the inbound platform supports.

Track has been laid for most of the new Red Line test track, and the building foundation is in place.